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5/11/2010

Hungarian Slavs
Tried Czechoslovakia
It didn’t work out.

Alexander Maxwell
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

Modern Slovak nationalism emerged from nineteenth-century Hungarian nationalism. While Hungarian-speakers sought to assimilate all ethnic minorities, the Hungary’s Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. They saw themselves as Hungarian citizens speaking the Pan-Slav language, and often the Czech dialect of that language. Slovak nationalism emerged as the unintended consequence of multi-ethnic Hungarian loyalism, ineffective Pan-Slavism, and counterproductive policies of Czechoslovak nation building.

Earth Sciences

5/8/2010

Where, oh where, is brome?
Can you tell from this image?
Better check the ground.

Laura Horner
University of Redlands, MS

Title: Identifying Annual Brome Within Joshua Tree National Park
I used remote-sensing techniques to produce maps of potential annual brome presence in Joshua Tree National Park in order to support land management and fire mitigation efforts. Annual brome is a non-native invasive grass that prevents the growth of native plants and serves as a highly flammable fuel that increases the frequency and scale of devastating wildfire.

Dissertation Haiku in the News!

Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku
“One of my old professors liked to say that a poem isn’t any good unless you can explain it to a three-year-old. I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.”
Full Article in Huffington Post
John Lundberg Writer, Poetry Teacher
09/30/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated Nov 17, 2011

Dissertations are Long and Boring
"This indisputable fact is the impetus behind the genius blog Dissertation Haiku, which explains itself thus: Dissertations are long and boring. By contrast everyone likes haiku. So why not write your dissertation as a haiku?
Full Article in The New Yorker
Macy Halford Contributor
09/23/2009

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